take up the confirmation of chuck hagel, yes, again. on tuesday they're expected to vote on whether that filibuster that's kept the full senate from voting on hagel to be the new defense secretary. republicans have blocked the vote and 15 of them sent a letter to president obama demanding hagel's name be withdrawn. >>> new secretary of state john kerry hits the road today for the first time after he took over for hillary clinton. his 11-day meet and greet takes him to new england, after taking him to germany and france as well. he'll start in egypt and saudi arabia. >>> north korea is threatening, quote, miserable destruction ahead of routine military exercises between the u.s. and south korea. similar threats have been made by north korea in the past. but these latest warnings come on the heels of the country's nuclear tests just two weeks ago. south korea's military is already in heightened state of alert. >>> it's the daytona 500 today. all the talk this week has been about one driver, that woman, danica patrick. we'll take you live to the track. [ female announcer ] roc® retino

take up the confirmation of chuck hagel, again. on tuesday, they are expected to vote on whether to end the filibuster that has kept the full senate from voting on hagel to be the new defense secretary. republicans have blocked the vote and 15 of them sent a letter to president obama demanding that hagel's name be withdrawn. >>> back to the crash now at daytona. none of the drivers were injured in that spectacular crash, but as i said, at least 28 fans were injured. most were treated or released from the medical center at the track or at a nearby hospital. rick hen drik was in the stands when the wreck happened. how close were you to the wreck? >> we were, me and my brothers approximately one section over and i'd say maybe about seven or eight rows from where the crash actually happened. >> when did you see it and when did you realize how bad it was? >> of course, as you heard many times before. it all happened so fast that we saw the wreck happening in turn four and then the car just literally explode right in front of us and then we saw the most visual was the tire flying into the